I love toys! If you come to our office you’ll see little toys and other little trinkets everywhere. I also love drawing. Both of these are little expressions of creativity. I love the thought of some guy sitting over his desk with sketches everywhere and clay designing exactly how he wants his little toy to look. I have had the opportunity to create a few little toy sculptures an there was nothing cooler than holding your little creation in your hand.
Even more than my love for toys and drawing is my love for amazing little web apps. There are so many fun and awesome things on the web and I rarely share what I have found and enjoy. One amazing app I found a long time ago is the Sketch app from Odopod (http://sketch.odopod.com/). It’s a super simple but super complex little tool. You click new sketch and begin your drawing adventure. There is a gallery of what others have drawn, and even more fun, you can watch them redraw in the exact steps the artist took when creating the drawing. It is so revealing to me seeing excatly how they came up with the final piece. Just a little view into all the uglys and happy mistakes that happen when drawing, coding, whatever. These are the things that help me make it through life (and conference calls).
Here is one I drew today while in a meeting. Don’t worry, I was listening. I am just more than a little ADD so this is what oozes out. I hope you enjoy my Big Bad LumberJack.
So lately I have fallen in love with the idea of custom 404 error pages. For those of you who are unaware what that means, those are the pages that you see if you somehow link to a page that doesn’t exist on a website. There are a lot of great websites out there that have built really clever 404 pages and it is now part of the to-do list for building websites for me.
